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A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada

A Journey Through the United States and Part of Canada

Everest, Robert

Paperback

Travel Writing19th Century United States HistoryGeneral United States

ISBN10: 1438534663
ISBN13: 9781438534664
Publisher: Book Jungle
Published: Mar 9 2010
Pages: 126
Weight: 0.51
Height: 0.27 Width: 7.50 Depth: 9.25
Language: English
Rev Robert Everest was the Chaplain to the East India Company before his tour of America. He left Liverpool and kept a journal during his travels. An excerpt reads, We returned to Amberst, and set off the next day for Sackville, where we found, in a creek off the bay, a dirty steamer waiting to take us to St. John's. It was, indeed, a filthy steamer. It had a large beam engine projecting above the deck, as is usual in this part of the world. Steam was escaping in large quantities from the boiler and pipes, which, with the rest of the machinery, were rusty and dirty as can be conceived. The head of the vessel was pressed down in the water by the cargo, and a large flock of sheep. Fortunately the night was calm, and we arrived at our destination without accident. But we had rather a rough sample of colonial life on board. The smoking, and spitting, and tobacco-chewing, and the various stenches that assailed us, were anything but agreeable. A despatch (dated October, 1853) from the Lieut. - Governor of Nova Scotia, upon the resources of the province, has lately been published, which is rather a curious document. His Excellency begins by felicitating himself at being able to say that among other articles coal commands a high price. But he does not mention why it is so dear, nor how it is that in the neighbouring province of Canada it is undersold by the American coal of Pennsylvania.

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